Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.

Careful, Avi, or Larsen will show up with some outrageous outrage, too. First, Slott came here, and then Layman. Come on, Larsen or Simone, make it a trifecta. Hehe.

Seriously, though, what Larsen said is loathsome, but no surprise. I love how the ministers of tolerance, as always, can't tolerate the one person who doesn't think like they do. Every time. Same with Card, acting like he's the Hate-Monger, or something.

Indeed, I talked about it briefly here last July when I did this post (http://carl-carlscomics.blogspot.com/2012/07/minnesota-comics-creators.html) about creators from my state... hard to believe I'd forgotten about that.

I keep remembering that interview with Jack Kirby- how he spoke, how he thought- and I try and imagine how an industry which was politically aware from the 1910s but also hard headed and mature turned into this circle jerk of deviants and hacks who are so jealous of their delusional status at the same time as they try and be the apostles to the emotionally retarded.

Kirby, Wood, Eisner- all of them really- reached entire generations. These loons barely reach the equivalent audience of a business newspaper and claim some papal infallibility into the bargain.

Did the worst detritus of the radical press of the early 1970s somehow steal the comics genre from us?

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About me

I'm Avi Green

From Jerusalem, Israel

I was born in Pennsylvania in 1974, and moved to Israel in 1983. I also enjoyed reading a lot of comics when I was young, the first being Fantastic Four. I maintain a strong belief in the public's right to knowledge and accuracy in facts. I like to think of myself as a conservative-style version of Clark Kent. I don't expect to be perfect at the job, but I do my best.